The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-27

NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Bad Feeling at Milledgeville-Cost o
the Proposed Levee to Protect An
gusta from Floods-Street Hands
Strike at Crawfordville.
GEORGIA
Whitfield county tax will be 45c. on the
hundred for the year 1887.
An electric light company will probably
be started in Athens before great while.
The prospect for good crop of sugar
cane in Houston is not regarded as very
favorable.
The depot building at Gum Greek has
been completed, and Sam w. Coney is
erecting large and commodious cotton
warehouse there.
A crowd of people in the neighborhood of
A Rockers, in Hancock county, dubbed in
and bought the privilege of seining his mill
pond They caught l 400 pounds of fish.
w. ]. Defoor and A. L. Harris, of Dodge
county, felled a board tree" pine last
week, from which they have already sawn
5000 boards and will get 1000 more Two
cuts made 524 boards.
Sanders Mcdaniel, son of exGov Nc
Daniel, was admitted to the bar at Walton
court, last week. Mr. Mcdaniel is grad
uate of the University of Georgia, and took
a good stand in his class.
Inc llCIle UOWn OI OH Jne an
Line railroad has been nearly depopulated.
There have been forty people moved from
there to Athens, and several more contem-
plate doing so. The trains will quit stop
ping there if there is another such move
ment.
The Hall county commissioners settled
upon CSC per hundred as the rate of taxation
for the current year, but as the Superior
Court will hold three weeks, instead of two,
they have concluded to raise it to roc, in
order to make sure that the county is not
embarrassed in meeting its obligations.
Dr. Eugene Foster, of Augusta, will sub
NIT to the Council of that city a report on
the practicability of building levee to pro-
tect the town from floods. The estimated
cost of the earthwork in the proposed plan
is S31 900. For bulkhead and gates, $20,-
600, making the total cost of the structure
$5l 600
Several houses of worship are now build
ing in Cherokee county, viz Sardis, Mis-
si0nary Baptist, five miles north of Canton;
Harmony, Primitive Baptist, near Fort
Burlington; Salem, Missionary Baptist,
Holly Springs; Calnpbellite or Christian,
near Cherokee Mills; and others in different
sections of the county.
r. M. Brown, of Fort Gaines, lost $50 on
the street last Friday, and upon returning
to hunt it was not able to find it. Later in
the day it was returned to him by Dixie
Mitchell (coloredl, who had found it and was
seeking the owner. This is the second or
third time Dixie has found large sums of
money and returned them TO the owner.
An officer from Surrency was across the
river from Brunswick Wednesday, on the
track of the fellow who struck Engineer
Ford, at McDonough's mill, recently, from
the effects of which he died. He was tracked
TO Spring Bluff and afterwards to Doerfiin-
gers store. II is intimated by some he has
already been caught and lynched, but there
is no positive proof of it. There is re-
ward offered for his capture.
At Crawfordville a few days ago the
Marshal took up a lot of negroes who were
going around the streets and doing nothing
at all for a livelihood and gave them 60
cents per day for their work on the streets
A few days passed and the hands worked
very we'll The idea struck them that they
were doing the world too much good to have
them employed and they struck for higher
wages. New men were obtained.
A negro woman named Francis White
went before Justice Freeman at Macon on
Thursday to swear out a peace warrant
against somebody that had been abusing
her. When she was told to sign her name
she took the pen in her left hand and wrote
her name thus: "etihW sernarF.n AS she
writes a fair hand and with ease, the ques-
ton was asked where and how she learned
to write in such way. She said she was
taught that way and could not write with
her right hand, or as anyone else writes.
Joel Bennett, of Hall county, is now in
his 74th year, and is as hale and hearty as
many a man of 80. Mr.. Bennett says that
he has not failed to follow the pillow every
season since he was large enough to hold up
the pillow handles. He has never worn his
shirt with the collar buttoned in sixty
years; has never missed meal of victuals
on account of sickness in forty years, and
has not gone to bed without chew of to-
bacco in his mouth in thirty years. He has
made fine crop this year, and bids fair to
make many more.
Last week a party was going from Dalton
TO Ellijay, and while ascending hill eleven
miles from Ellijay, on the Dalton road, the
harness broke. A negro was driving and a
lady, Mrs. Ralph Z. Walker and her Il
months old baby were in the buggy The
negro hallooed to her to jump out. which
she did with the child in her arms She
struck the ground with her feet first, and
the left foot was careened to the left. The
child was heavy and Mrs Walker being OF
delicate frame, could not Withstand the
shock and the leap broke her left leg about
four inches below the knee, and made some
very ugly bruizes on the child's face.
A gentleman of Gainesville has a fine
mich COW that suddenly failed in giving
the quantity of tactical fluid she had usually
given, whereupon our friend concluded thai
the cow was sick. Upon examination, he
decided that her ailment was what is called
the "hollow tail" He pursued the course
usually adopted by cow doctors in such
cases, and split the tail, inserted quantity
of salt, turpentine, etc, and bound it w
nicely. On going out the next day to see
how 'Bossy" was getting along, he caught
a half-grown pig, which he kept in the
same lot, busily engaged in sucking the COW
and this accounted for the falling off OF
milk for table use.
Jonathan Bell, prominent man of Ogle
thorpe county, died Sunday. He was about
so years old, and a sterling Democrat all his
life Before the war he was very wealthy
owning considerable property in the count,
and hundreds of slaves. The war com
pletely broke him, and he has lived life Of
quiet and repose. He has had his cofiil
made a number of years. He told hi
friends on Saturday that he would soon die
and to send for his coffin. He had il mad,
waterproof and had the makers fill it full
of water, screw the lid on and turn it owe
and over. They did so, in his view, and h,
was satisfied. He died the next day, anC
was laid away TO rest
A few days ago Mr.. Hodges, of Milledge
vile, took a check to the bank for payment
He insists that the cashier, Mr.. Bethune
handed him $50 gold piece and s5in silver